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Adrien Brody recently made headlines for his Oscar-winning performance in The Brutalist, but long before he ever played Lászlo Tóth in the film, he starred in a WWII epic that’s still a streaming hit years later. Brody features alongside Frank Finlay (Othello) and Emilia Fox (Dorian Gray) in The Pianist, the 2002 WWII epic following an acclaimed Polish musician (Brody) who faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family, leading him to hide in the ruins of Warsaw to survive. The Pianist is currently streaming on both Prime Video and Tubi in America, but globally, it’s one of the most popular VOD purchases in countries like Slovenia, among others. The Pianist earned nearly flawless scores of 95% from critics and 96% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, and it grossed $120 million globally against a $35 million budget.

In addition to finding immense critical and financial success, The Pianist was nominated for seven Oscars,...

BroadwayWorld has just learned that The Picture of Dorian Gray officially recouped its Broadway investment. This milestone comes during the production’s final week of performances, which saw a record-breaking gross of $2,092,069 — the highest weekly take for the production and the first time it has surpassed $2 million in a single week. This achievement also marks the second-highest weekly gross for any show, play or musical, in the history of the Music Box Theatre, topped only by Dear Evan Hansen during the week ending December 31, 2017. Throughout its extended run, Kip Williams’ innovative adaptation starring Sarah Snook has repeatedly broken its own box office records and holds the distinction of being the only play to gross over $1 million in a week at the 104-year-old venue. The...

The Picture of Dorian Gray officially has recouped its investment, producers announced. The play starring Succession‘s Sarah Snook in a solo performance was reportedly capitalized at more than $8 million.

Producers have not confirmed the capitalization amount.

The recoupment announcement comes days after the production’s June 29 final performance. The high-tech production reported a record-breaking final-week gross of $2,092,069, the highest weekly take for the production and the first time it surpassed $2 million in a single week.

The $2M figure marks the second-highest weekly gross for any show, play or musical, in the history of the Music Box Theatre, topped only by Dear Evan Hansen during the week ending December 31, 2017. Throughout its extended run, Kip Williams’ adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel repeatedly topped its own box office records and holds the distinction of being the only non-musical play to gross more than $1 million in a week at the 104-year-old venue.

Sarah Snook, star of the Broadway production of The Picture of Dorian Gray, recently received her portrait at Sardi's. Snook took home the 2025 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for her role. BroadwayWorld was there for the portrait unveiling and you can check out photos below! Sarah Snook is an Olivier Award winning performer who was most recently seen on the final season of the HBO award-winning series “Succession.” A trained actress, Sarah established herself in the world of theatre through her performances in King Lear with the State Theatre Company of South Australia; three productions for the Griffin Theatre Company including Crestfall, and S27; alongside Ralph Fiennes in The Master Builder at London’s iconic Old Vic Theatre; and most recently, in Saint Joan for the Sydney Theatre...

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is July 2, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: Good morning, Broadway fans! Start your day with all the buzz from the Great White Way. In today's edition, we've got the latest Broadway grosses—with The Picture of Dorian Gray closing and soaring into the top 5—plus stunning shots from the Heathers Off-Broadway opening night gala and a sneak peek at the cast of Ava: The Secret Conversations as they prepare for their New York premiere. Catch must-see video moments, including Broadway stars in Reclaim the Flag, Frozen rehearsals at The Muny, and a magical first look at The Wizard...

Broadway thinned its summer roster a bit last week, with five shows playing their final performances (and each one posting significant box office gains as last-chancers bought up seats).

Three of the closers were planned as limited engagements. Glengarry Glen Ross ended a very strong run on June 28, filling virtually all seats at the Palace and grossing $2,230,346 for the Broadway week ending June 29.

The Picture of Dorian Gray was one of four shows that closed June 29. Another standing room only week at the Music for the Sarah Snook starrer, with a big gross of $2,092,069.

Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends bowed out at the nearly full Friedman (97%), the best attendance for the show in weeks. The final gross was $474,654 stayed modest with an average ticket price of $95.

The two early closers were Dead Outlaw, filling 94% of seats at the Longacre for a take of $681,012, and Real Women Have Curves, grossing $758,028 with...

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 6/29/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative grosses and other statistics on how each show stacked up this week and in the past. Of note this week: Glengarry Glen Ross closed on 6/28. Dead Outlaw, Real Women Have Curves: The Musical, Stephen Sondheim'S Old Friends, and The Picture Of Dorian Gray closed on 6/29. Click Here to Visit the Broadway Grosses... Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends (24.9%), Dead Outlaw (19.4%), Real Women Have Curves: The Musical (12.4%), Call Me Izzy (3.6%), Maybe Happy Ending (1.2%), The Picture...

Over the course of 15 seasons, Father Matthew Mara’s existence has gone from a life of faith to a living hell. But, just like Dennis in a pair of jorts, he can always go lower.

On It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Rickety Cricket is essentially the Paddy’s Pub Gang’s picture of Dorian Gray. While Rob McElhenney, Kaitlin Olson, Glenn Howerton and Charlie Day all have teams of real-life aestheticians and stylists working tirelessly to mitigate the effects of aging on their rich, famous faces, Always Sunny writer and executive producer David Hornsby has been working with prosthetics professionals to create the visage of a man who is, figuratively, spiritually and physically, melting.

Since his debut in the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season Two classic “The Gang Exploits a Miracle,” Rickety Cricket’s fall into sin and grotesquery has been equal parts gradual and unseemly. But thanks to...

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 6/22/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative grosses and other statistics on how each show stacked up this week and in the past. Of note this week: Floyd Collins, Smash, and The Last Five Years closed on 6/22. The Picture Of Dorian Gray had a planned seven-performance week. Click Here to Visit the Broadway Grosses... Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: Real Women Have Curves: The Musical (17.6%), Smash (15.9%), The Last Five Years (11.6%), Harry Potter And The Cursed Child (11.6%), Floyd...

Sean Connery starred in a superhero movie unlike any other back in 2003. Now, 22 years later, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is heading to streaming.

Beginning July 1, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen will be available to stream on Hulu. Distributed by 20th Century Fox in 2003, the steampunk superhero movie is based on the first volume of the eponymous comic book series by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, which is set in a universe where all the characters and events from Victorian literature coexist, with Connery starring as Allan Quatermain, the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was directed by Stephen Norrington, who is perhaps best known for helming the first Blade movie starring Wesley Snipes.

Joining Connery's Allan Quatermain as part of the titular team are Bram Stoker's vampiress Mina Harker, H. G. Wells' the Invisible Man, Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr.

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 6/15/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative grosses and other statistics on how each show stacked up this week and in the past. Of note this week: Call Me Izzy opened at Studio 54 on 6/12. One performance (Fri. 6/13) was cancelled. The production received mixed reviews with critics praising Jean Smart's performance. Read the reviews for the production Here. Smash cancelled one performance (Sat. 6/14 mat.). The Last Five Years had a nine-performance week. The Picture Of Dorian Gray had a planned seven-performance week. Click Here to Visit the Broadway Grosses... Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: Cabaret...

The 2025 Tony Awards gave a warm welcome to first-timers tonight by awarding four actors for their Broadway debut. This accounts for half of the ceremony's acting categories — one of the best showings for debut performances this century.

Sarah Snook also portrayed multiple roles to win Lead Actress in a Play for The Picture of Dorian Gray. The Succession star impressively swaps between 26 characters in this adaptation of the Oscar Wilde classic, often acting opposite recorded versions of herself projected onto a giant screen center stage.

Cole Escola became the first nonbinary performer to win the Lead Actor in a Play category for their wild performance in Oh Mary!, which they also wrote. Escola portrays a comically demented version of first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, who craves nothing more than becoming a “rather well-known niche cabaret legend.”

Nicole Scherzinger won Lead Actress in a Musical for Sunset Boulevard in an upset...

Earlier tonight at the 78th Annual Tony Awards, Sarah Snook took home a Tony Award for 'Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play' for her outstanding work in The Picture of Dorian Gray. After leaving the stage at Radio City Music Hall, she checked in with BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge to share his initial reaction! Sarah is an Olivier Award winning performer who was most recently seen on the final season of the HBO award-winning series “Succession.” For her portrayal of Shiv Roy over the past four seasons she has received a Primetime Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards and a Critics Choice Award and been nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award. The series...

Broadway’s history books might remember the 2024-2025 season as the year Hollywood stars – George Clooney, Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook – sent box office revenue (and ticket prices) soaring to record heights. Or maybe the year of Audra McDonald and Nicole Scherzinger. But I’ll remember this Broadway season as being just so very funny. Oh, Mary!, Eureka Day, Death Becomes Her, even the tender humor of Maybe Happy Ending, all supplied audiences with something in very short supply outside the theater this year: Laughter. That’s the best legacy of the 2024-2025 Broadway season.

With that in mind, and much gratitude, here are my predictions for this Sunday’s 78th Annual Tony Awards.

Best Play

Will win: Oh, Mary!

Should win: Oh, Mary!

Cole Escola, Conrad Ricamora, ‘Oh, Mary!’ Emilio Madrid

Before the big, superstar-driven megahits Good Night,...

Broadway productions including Sunset Boulevard, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Redwood, Purpose, The Last Five Years, and Smash have partnered with the Entertainment Community Fund as part of its “Producer’s Picks” benefit performance program. Check out photos of from behind the scenes of the special performances. In this initiative, producers donate a block of tickets for select performances, with 100% of the proceeds going directly to the Fund. These contributions support the Fund’s wide range of services for professionals in the performing arts and entertainment industries. Before each performance, cast members gather with representatives from the Fund to discuss the organization's impact and share personal stories of support and involvement. Highlights included appearances by Tom Francis and the cast of Sunset Boulevard, Sarah Snook and the company of...

Sutton Foster, Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga, Idina Menzel, and (if I may invoke her name) Patti LuPone would have been a monster of an all-star Tony nomination lineup in any other season. But those past winners, each a major force in musical theater history, missed the ballot despite their (almost uniformly) strong showings on Broadway this year.

If it’s uncouth to define a season by who didn’t make the Tony cut, that group of also-rans is a sign of the riches on offer. And if this season was in part distinguished by the arrival of a cavalcade of Hollywood A-listers, the nominations also highlight how many Broadway mainstays have set up residence to deliver excellence year after year: Nominees Jonathan Groff, Danya Taymor, Kara Young, Justin Peck, and Dede Ayite all won Tonys last season.

So if not quite every gem of the season is in the mix this Sunday,...

The world will descend on New York on Sunday night, by way of the 78th Tony Awards. Shows set in the U.S., the U.K., Cuba, Italy, and Iran all make their way to the nominees circle. Not to mention a show from South Korea projected to win more Tonys than any other production, potentially the first one ever to premiere in Asia and win best musical.

And when I say “projected,” I mean that mathematically. Every year, I run a statistical model based on precursor awards, which categories a show is nominated in, blended critic predictions, and betting markets to project the odds that each nominee will emerge victorious in every category. After another wonderful year on Broadway, with 42 new shows opening and 29 of them receiving nominations, it’s time to get excited for the big night with a data-based forecast at who might triumph at Radio City...

The best of Broadway and off-Broadway were honored this past weekend at the 2025 Drama Desk Awards!

Audra McDonald, Jasmine Amy Rogers, and Sarah Snook all accepted the top acting prizes at the awards show on Sunday (June 1) at the NYU Skirball Center in New York City.

The event featured gender-free performance categories with each category featuring twice as many nominees as the former gendered ones. Each acting category also had two winners, with one category getting three winners because of a tie!

Audra and Jasmine won the awards for Outstanding Lead Performance in a Musical for their work in Gypsy and Boop! The Musical, respectively. Sarah won Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play for her work in The Picture of Dorian Gray. The second win in that category went to The Hills of California‘s Laura Donnelly, who wasn’t in attendance.

Also pictured inside are Outstanding Featured Performance in...

Winners of the 2025 Drama Desk Awards were announced at a ceremony on June 1, hosted by Debra Messing and Tituss Burgess. These awards are unique in that Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off Broadway compete together in the same categories.

Maybe Happy Ending was a clear favorite with Drama Desk voters, claiming six awards to become the winningest production of the ceremony. The show’s victories include the coveted Outstanding Musical prize and Outstanding Director for Michael Arden. Writers Will Aronson and Hue Park pulled off a clean sweep with wins for Music, Lyrics, and Book of a Musical.

The Drama Desks employ combined gender acting categories, with an expanded number of nominees. As such, they’ve decided to present two winners by default in each acting race. Tony Award frontrunner Sarah Snook claimed Lead Performance in a Play for The Picture of Dorian Gray, alongside fellow Tony nominee Laura Donnelly for The Hill of California.

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/25/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative grosses and other statistics on how each show stacked up this week and in the past. Of note this week: This was the final week of the 2024-2025 season, a 53-week season which began on 5/20/2024 and ended on 5/25/2025. Call Me Izzy began previews at Studio 54 and opens on 6/12. Glengarry Glen Ross had a nine-performance week. The Picture Of Dorian Gray had a planned six-performance week. Memorial Day weekend fell within this week. Click Here to Visit the Broadway Grosses... Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was:...

Welcome to Tony Talk, a column in which Gold Derby contributors Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan offer Tony Awards analysis. Two weeks away from the 2025 Tony ceremony on June 8, we offer our take on who will win four of the top acting trophies and comment on momentum shifts in the top races.

David Buchanan: Last week, we discussed the very close musical acting categories, so it feels fitting to pivot now to the play acting races. Before we do, though, we should touch on the Broadway League's Spring Road Conference, which is geared toward pitching this year's shows as future touring productions and garners a fair share of Tony voter attendees. What have you heard about how the major event might be shaping the top races?

Sam Eckmann: The annual Spring Road Conference is perhaps the most important week of Tony campaigning. There are just over 100 out-of-town Tony voters, the...

Few people likely associate Oscar Wilde’s famed 1890 novella The Picture of Dorian Gray with the tech-laden, scroll-heavy social media of the 21st century. But for Tony-nominated director Kip Williams, this landmark work of queer literature and the fast-paced digital landscape of TikTok are a perfect fit — and the sheer will it takes to bring them together onstage is the entire point of his new Broadway show.

Wilde’s story follows the young, wealthy, and beautiful Dorian Gray. After having a portrait done by the talented painter Basil, Dorian longs...

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/18/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative grosses and other statistics on how each show stacked up this week and in the past. Redwood closed on 5/18. The Picture Of Dorian Gray had a planned seven-performance week. Click Here to Visit the Broadway Grosses... Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: Redwood (10%), Sunset Blvd. (7.1%), The Last Five Years (6.6%), The Book Of Mormon (5.7%), Oh, Mary! (5.4%), The Great Gatsby (3.1%), The Lion King (1.7%), Smash (1.5%), Maybe Happy Ending (1.5%), &...

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/11/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative grosses and other statistics on how each show stacked up this week and in the past. Of note this week: The Picture Of Dorian Gray had a planned six-performance week. The 2024-2025 season is a 53-week season, ending on 5/25/2025. Since statistics are reported weekly, the Broadway season of 52 weeks amounts to 364 days. Therefore, a week is added to the Broadway season every seven years. Click Here to Visit the Broadway Grosses... Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: Cabaret...

Exclusive: Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo will play Bram Stoker’s demonic vampire and 22 other roles in Dracula, a one-woman theatrical extravaganza set for next year in London’s West End, from the creatives and producers behind Sarah Snook’s Broadway and London triumph The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Stoker’s gothic shocker explores the dark corners of Victorian-age sexuality, fear and desire. The tale, first published in 1897, is both alluring and horrifying, full of terrifying and dreamlike imagery.

Dracula, adapted and directed by Kip Williams, marks Oscar-nominated Erivo’s return to the stage for the first time since her Tony Award-winning role as Celie in The Color Purple, which she starred in for two years in New York before exiting in January 2017. The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art-trained artist played Celie in London, and honed her craft in several plays and musicals in the UK before relocating to the U.

While the comic book movie genre is all the rage now thanks to the MCU and DC, there was a time when they were more grounded, gritty and edgy. Before the big studio franchises came and gave a CGI-filled direction to the genre movies like Blade, Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy, X-Menmovies kept the audience on the periphery of realism and fantasy. One among them, Sean Connery-led The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, finds some love on streaming.

As per FlixPatrol, the 2003 movie is steadily climbing the Tubi charts where it's streaming for free. The movie is at #7 on the list, standing behind titles like The Fast & The Furious, Friday the 13th, Next Friday, and more. While the steampunk superhero film is loosely based on the comic book series of the same name by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill got mixed reactions from the audience upon its debut it was a commercial hit,...

Josh Hartnett has banked nearly 30 years in Hollywood, beginning with roles in horror flicks “The Faculty” and “Halloween H20: 20 Years Later” and the TV show “Cracker.”

Sure, he landed big roles, like in Michael Bay’s “Pearl Harbor,” but the former teen idol never got much respect for his acting. Now, however, thanks to his roles in “Oppenheimer,” “Trap” and “Black Mirror,” we’re in the middle of a Hartnett-issance

He’s back in action mode in his new thriller “Fight or Flight,” which is, essentially, “Bullet Train,” but on a plane: His mercenary character has to fight off several assassins who want him and his client dead.

Here are the roles where he’s demonstrated he’s definitely got the chops. When he’s good, he’s great, but when he’s bad, he’s even better.

Josh Hartnett in “The Faculty” (Credit: Dimension Films) The Faculty

Zeke,...

Sarah Snook is the only person onstage — besides some cloaked-in-black camera operators — in a whopping 26 roles for Broadway’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray.” Director Kip Williams, the former director of the Sydney Theatre Company who brought the play from Australia to the West End and finally to New York, retrofits Oscar Wilde’s 1890 classic of vanity and decadence to a 2025 mindset and visual style. “Succession” Emmy winner Snook plays not only Dorian Gray, but the man who paints the portrait that dooms the dandyish flaneur to narcissistic doom. As well as 24 other people, men and women, in his midst.

“The Picture of Dorian Gray,” comprised of 60,000 words all memorized and monologued by Snook, is now at the Music Box Theatre through June 29, with the actress performing six shows a week in often grotesquely distorted close-up courtesy of cameras capturing her every move and displaying the various characters across panels on the stage.

Well, big weekly grosses and even bigger stars can’t guarantee a Tony Awards nomination.

Broadway does what Broadway wants, so no Best Play nominations (or anything else) for huge moneymaker Othello, and no Best Play noms for Good Night, and Good Luck, Stranger Things: The First Shadow and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Same for the critical favorite Cult of Love.

While Good Night and Dorian Gray weren’t nominated for Best Play, their big stars — George Clooney and Sarah Snook, respectively — were nominated for their performances, as expected. In fact, Dorian Gray, in which Snook plays all the characters from the Oscar Wilde novel, has the distinction of being the most nominated solo show in Tony history, placing in six categories: Snook’s performance, Kip Williams’ direction, and nods for scenic, lighting, sound and costume design.

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Nominations for the 78th Tony Awards have been revealed — and several of your favorite TV stars are up for Broadway’s top honors.

Veterans among Thursday’s nominees include Glee grads Darren Criss and Jonathan Groff, Smash alumni Megan Hilty and Jeremy Jordan, Succession‘s Sarah Snook and Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink. Other faces from the small screen include Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul), Cole Escola (Difficult People), Daniel Dae Kim (Hawaii Five-0), Justina Machado (One Day at a Time) and Audra McDonald (The Good Fight), whose nod for the Gypsy revival was her 11th Tony nomination — the most for any Broadway performer.

Forty-two productions are eligible for Tony Award nominations this year – the announcements come Thursday morning – making many of the categories very, very competitive. Will the movie and TV stars take over the awards just as they’ve done at the box office? Is there room in the major categories for the high-tech items like Stranger Things: The First Shadow and The Picture Of Dorian Gray? And can anything stop Cole Escola and Oh, Mary! I wouldn’t bet on it.

The nominations for The 78th Annual Tony Awards will be announced Thursday, May 1, live from Sofitel New York on the Tony Awards official YouTube page at 9 a.m. Et. A selection of categories will be revealed live on CBS Mornings at 8:30 a.m. Et. A complete list of nominees will be available at TonyAwards.com immediately following the announcement.

The Tony Awards themselves are set for Sunday, June 8, airing...

Now playing at the Music Box Theatre, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an enthralling multimedia tour de force starring Sarah Snook that seamlessly integrates live and pre-recorded video with live stage performance. The production is directed by Kip Williams, who also conceived this new adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 1890 novel.

In the production, Snook portrays not only the three central roles—the hedonistic aristocrat Lord Henry, painter Basil Hallward, and the handsome titular Dorian Gray—but also more than 20 additional minor characters. Throughout, she’s supported by a dynamic interplay of shifting video screens, live camera feeds, and state-of-the-art mobile phone technology.

The story follows the impressionable Dorian, who, upon seeing his freshly painted portrait, pledges to trade his soul for eternal youth and beauty. As he indulges in a life of scandal and depravity, Dorian’s youthful appearance stays unblemished, while his portrait visibly shows the evidence of...

According to our current combined predictions, Sarah Snook is the frontrunner to win Best Actress in a Play at this year's Tony Awards. She's in contention for her Broadway debut starring in Kip Williams' stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, where she plays all 26 characters. If she prevails, she would be the third Emmy winner in a row to have claimed the Tony in this particular category.

In 2023, Jodie Comer prevailed for her Broadway debut starring in Suzie Miller's solo play, Prima Facie. Prior to that, she won an Emmy in 2019 for her role as bad girl Villanelle on the first season of Killing Eve.

Last year, Sarah Paulson won for starring in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Appropriate. Nearly a decade ago, she took home a 2016 Emmy Award for her portrayal of prosecutor Marcia Clark on American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson.

In...

Welcome to Tony Talk, a column in which Gold Derby contributors Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan offer Tony Awards analysis. On the heels of The Picture of Dorian Gray's opening night, we reconvene to debate the merits of the performance and its Tonys prospects.

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David Buchanan: The much-anticipated, Olivier Award-winning production of The Picture of Dorian Gray just opened, and we've both had the chance to attend Oscar Wilde's tale of aestheticism and debauchery. This mounting earned mostly glowing reviews from critics, but not everybody was equally enamored with the technology-forward take on the classic story. But before we dive into the modernity of it all, let's tackle the heart of the matter, which is Sarah Snook's bravura performance. I know we've both had much praise for some of the other performers eligible in the Best Actress category,...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Opening night: March 27, 2025

Venue: Broadway’s Music Box Theatre

Written by: Oscar Wilde

Adapted and Directed by: Kip Williams

Performer: Sarah Snook

Camera Operators: clew, Luka Kain, Natalie Rich, Benjamin Sheen, Dara Woo

Running time: 2 hrs (no intermission)

Deadline’s takeaway: If only Oscar Wilde were alive to offer up a pithy description of Broadway’s playful The Picture of Dorian Gray starring the remarkable Succession actor Sarah Snook, because this is a production that most of us will need more than a few words to convey all of its exuberant theatrical dazzle.

Equal parts acting masterclass, tech wizardry, illusion and clockwork stage management, all costumed and set designed with the wit and color schemes of the most vivid Cindy Sherman photographs, Dorian Gray marks audacious Broadway debuts by both Snook and director-adaptor Kip Williams.

So what if the use of video cameras on stage is already bordering on cliché,...

Gus Van Sant’s Drugstore Cowboy is a road movie on opioids. Its characters are nomadic drug addicts who roam the Pacific Northwest in search of pharmacies and hospitals to raid, but the thrill they get from thieving is as fleeting and mocking as the highs they get from speed and other drugs.

The leader of this pack is Bob Hughes (Matt Dillon), who’s developed a kind of gambler’s intuition about their robberies. When he feels “hot,” he’ll hit a location at the drop of a hat, no matter the time of day. But when he senses the group’s luck turning south, he’ll hole up in their dilapidated house and face withdrawal rather than risk capture. Compared to Bob, the others in the group—his wife Dianne (Kelly Lynch), his best friend Rick (James Le Gros), and Rick’s teenage girlfriend Nadine (Heather Graham)—see...

We’re about halfway through the 2024-25 Broadway season, and there are eight productions of plays set to open this spring. Could any of them contend at this year’s Tony Awards? Below, find a summary of the plot of each play as well as the author, director, and cast, plus the opening and (where applicable) closing dates.

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Opened: Jan. 23

Closes: March 2

Official synopsis: The comedy unfolds in an Iranian classroom where adult English learners practice for their proficiency exam. As they leapfrog through a linguistic playground, their wildly different dreams, frustrations, and secrets come to light. This production presented by Roundabout Theatre Company follows a successful premiere with off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theatre Company. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Written by Sanaz Toossi

Directed by Knud Adams

Starring Tala Ashe, Ava Lalezarzadeh, Pooya Mohseni, Marjan Neshat, and...

(Warning! This story contains spoilers for The Substance).

When talking about the prosthetics job on Coralie Fargeat’s skin-crawling body horror The Substance, it’s easier to tell you what wasn’t prosthetics.

“Demi [Moore]‘s face on the back of Monstro Elisasue is digital,” the man in charge, Pierre Olivier Persin, tells The Hollywood Reporter. “You know, the screaming face — we had a silicone head of Demi, but it was so subtle, what Coralie wanted. You really needed the actress there.”

He continues: “The blob at the very end, which also had Demi’s face in the middle [is VFX], though we designed it… And when the blood is coming out of Monstro’s arm, there is a stunt woman inside the suit with a green sleeve. Apart from that, everything is practical — absolutely everything.”

Pierre Olivier Persin, makeup artist on The Substance.

The Paris-based special makeup effect artist, who has...

Exclusive: Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones), Joe Alwyn (The Brutalist), Naledi Murray (Sweet Tooth), Ben Chaplin (September 5) and Sebastian Orozco (The Crow) round out the cast of Sam Esmail’s upcoming film Panic Carefully for Warner Bros.

They join the previously announced leading cast of Julia Roberts, Eddie Redmayne, Elizabeth Olsen, and Brian Tyree Henry.

Details regarding the film’s premise and character descriptions are under wraps. Panic Carefully is described as a paranoid thriller in the vein of Esmail’s Mr. Robot and Silence of the Lambs and involves the hunt for a cyber-terrorist.

Esmail wrote the film and will direct. He and Chad Hamilton will produce for Esmail Corp., along with Scott Stuber, Roberts, Marisa Yeres Gill, and Lisa Gillan. Kevin McCormick and Chrystal Li are overseeing the project for Warner Bros.

Gillen is known for portraying “Petyr ‘Littlefinger’ Baelish” in HBO’s critically acclaimed hit Game of Thrones,...

Over the last few months, the world has gotten hooked on "The Substance." Despite some staunch naysayers (not to mention some nauseous audiences and a stubborn studio), the popularity of director Coralie Fargeat's balls-to-the-wall body horror farce is simply undeniable, from its unexpected box office haul to its virality across social media platforms like Letterboxd and TikTok. As the fervor steadily rose, so too did its awards buzz. The film has exceeded expectations across multiple Oscars precursors, including an unprecedented five Golden Globe nominations, leading awards experts to predict it could go all the way to Best Picture.

With this in mind, when someone falls in love with one film, the first thing they want to do is watch another one just like it. Thankfully, much like how Sue (Margaret Qualley) is derived from Elisabeth's (Demi Moore) spinal fluid, so too is "The Substance" a brainchild of countless cinematic inspirations.

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Plenty of films satirize Hollywood, dating back to 1950’s Sunset Boulevard and beyond, but few are as giddily gruesome as The Substance. The film stars Demi Moore as an actress who’s been deemed past her prime and pushed out of Hollywood, so she signs up for a regimen that promises to make a younger version of her (played by Margaret Qualley). In typical monkey paw fashion, the...

Penny Dreadful is one of those series that’s ardently beloved by its fanbase but remains underrated in the general sphere. Unique and ambitious to the point of fearless and unafraid to indulge in a smorgasbord mixture of soap opera delights, creator and writer John Logan fills his Gothic horror monster mash with complicated moral ambiguity, unrepentant gore, equally unrepentant sex, an impeccable atmosphere, and an ensemble of figures from classic literature that reside in the public domain. We have Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway) and his Creature (Rory Kinnear), Dorian Gray (Reeve Carney), and eventually, the big bad vampire himself — Count Dracula (Christian Camargo).

Shonen anime tend to be the most popular demographic genre of the medium, with many of these shows being synonymous with anime as a whole. Some are based on preceding popular manga, whereas others are completely original works. While several in recent years have gone on to become international hits, others of these shows ended before they even finished their initially intended run.

Shonen anime being canceled is a rarity nowadays, but this was a lot more common in previous decades. These canceled shows included major brands, including one of the biggest mecha shows around. Though they didn't finish when they were supposed to, these shows are still classics and definitely worth checking out.

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Belonging in the pantheon of famous comic book writers with Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Alan Moore is famous for creating some of the most iconic characters of all time. While he never worked for Marvel Comics in a serious capacity after his stint for Marvel UK in the early 1980s, Moore was an influential writer for DC throughout his career until his retirement from comic books in 2019. Last month, Alan Moore released his new book, having since focused on writing novels.

While he's influenced the superhero genre to the point of changing the meaning of superheroes with Watchmen, Moore has since disavowed it and hasn't held back in his expression of distaste for modern superheroes and their fandoms. In fact, Alan Moore doesn't own a copy of Watchmen anymore. He has distanced himself from most of his work as a comic book writer due to sour memories and negative experiences.

While speaking at the French premiere of Coralie Fargeat’s bloody satire The Substance, Demi Moore likened the film to the highly contentious presidential election playing out in the United States.

“America is built on Puritans, religious fanatics, and criminals,” said Moore, according to Variety. “[And] you’re kind of seeing [as much] in our election right now.”

The actress touched on how sexuality is still “taboo” in America, where there is “a lot of fear” about the body. “It never made sense why we can celebrate the body in art, but fear it in cinema,...

Matthew “Rickety Cricket” Mara is back in action for It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 17 — hide your horny dogs.

One of the cooler, more conceptual, The Picture of Dorian Gray-style aspects of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is how one of the show’s foundational writers and producers plays the physical manifestation of the Paddy’s Pub Gang’s spiritual decay in the form of the disgraced, disfigured, homeless ex-priest Rickety Cricket. When Father Mara found his way back into the Gang’s lives in the Season Two episode “The Gang Exploits a Miracle,” they were already assholes, of course, but they weren’t quite the monsters that they would gradually become in the later seasons. Then, Dee’s decision to seduce Rickety Cricket away from the Catholic Church sent his life down a path of homelessness, drug addiction, prostitution and bestiality that has left him a grotesque, corrupted...

With The Last Voyage of the Demeter now on home video, Dracula is once again on everyone’s mind. In it, Javier Botet plays a horrific version of the count that’s far removed from the recent, classic-style version played by Nicolas Cage in Renfield. How will he stack up against some of the best versions of the fanged Count? First, we must come up with our list of the Best Dracula Actors!

C​hristian Camargo – Penny Dreadful (2016)

W​hile Universal was trying to figure out how to create their Dark Universe, over on Showtime, Penny Dreadful was already doing a fantastic job beating them to the punch. The series pulled together literary versions of Frankenstein’s monster, the wolfman, Dorian Gray, and eventually Dracula himself. Christian Camargo played Dr. Alexander Sweet in Season Three, who begins to seduce Eva Green’s Vanessa Ives. It is revealed later that this doctor is,...

Whatever acclaim––nay, outright-legendary status––is foisted upon Michelangelo Antonioni typically comes from a small selection of films produced in the 1960s. While I continue awaiting just desserts for Mystery of Oberwald and Beyond the Clouds, we can now cross off Il Grido, his 1957 feature that’s been restored by The Film Foundation, Cineteca di Bologna, and Compass Film, and which is receiving a theatrical release from Janus Films starting at Film Forum on November 8 (before an inevitable Criterion). Ahead of this, there’s a new trailer in which Antonioni’s early triumph looks crisp as ever.

Here’s the new synopsis: “Years before L’avventura, his international breakthrough, Michelangelo Antonioni crafted his first masterpiece with Il grido, a raw expression of anguish that remains one of Italian cinema’s great underappreciated gems. Bridging Antonioni’s early, neorealism-inspired work and his hallmark stories of existential rootlessness Il Grido centers on...

Michelangelo Antonioni, the iconic Italian auteur, has been immortalized in cinema history thanks to his acclaimed classics “L’Avventura,” “Blow-Up,” and “The Passenger,” which redefined film grammar.

Yet three years prior to his international breakthrough with “L’Avventura,” which won the Cannes Jury

Prize, Antonioni directed his lesser-known feature “Il Grido.” The 1957 drama is relatively obscure and has rarely been screened stateside; however, the film is an early look at the themes of loneliness and fractured relationships that Antonioni later became synonymous with.

The official synopsis for “Il Grido” reads: “Michelangelo Antonioni crafted his first masterpiece with ‘Il Grido,’ a raw expression of anguish that remains one of Italian cinema’s great under-appreciated gems. Bridging Antonioni’s early, neorealism-inspired work and his hallmark stories of existential rootlessness, ‘Il Grido’ centers on Aldo (Steve Cochran), a sugar-refinery worker in the Po Valley. When Irma (Alida Valli), his lover of seven years, learns that...

Update, Oct. 21: The previously announced The Picture of Dorian Gray starring Succession actor Sarah Snook will open Thursday, March 27, 2025 on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre. Previews will begin Monday, March 10, 2025. The Picture of Dorian Gray will play a strictly limited engagement for 14 weeks.

Previous, Oct. 1: Following a sold out, critically acclaimed run in the West End, the new adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray starring Succession actor Sarah Snook in 26 roles will open on Broadway in March for a limited engagement.

The production is adapted and directed by Kip Williams. The adaptation began at the Sydney Theatre Company, where Williams is the Artistic Director.

The play will mark Snook’s Broadway debut. She won the Olivier Award for the role in the London premiere production. In it, Snook plays all 26 characters in the story.

The official synopsis: “Wilde’s timeless text is revolutionized...